Lynyrd Skynyrd Meets Jimmy Buffett

Following a performance at the Greenville Memorial Auditorium in Greenville, South Carolina, on October 20, 1977, the Lynyrd Skynyrd band boarded a chartered Convair CV-240 airplane bound for Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where they were scheduled to appear at LSU the...

Heart, the band…

The Band Heart, Touring … Ann and Nancy Wilson   For 13 years (in their hay-days from the early 80s thru the 90s) I arranged and managed all of the private flight (air) transportation for the band, ‘Heart. Gulfstream G1 image… In this instance...

Grateful Dead Tours

Grateful Dead Aircraft Tours What A Long Strange Trip… Back in the day (1978 – 1995) Grateful Dead was a client of mine… for about 18 years I handled all of their private air transportation consultation. And no, they didn’t take VW buses around...

Nazareth, the band

Nazareth World Music Festival Aircraft Tour – 1979 Lightening, Smoke, and the Border Crossings- Nazareth’s Roadies – After popping through the other side of a severe squall line of thunderstorms, heading the opposite direction of our route just west of...

Lionel Richie and the Commodores

Commodores Brick House Woman Tour with Lionel Richie- In the mid-seventies, another band I had the pleasure of flying for was… the Commodores with Lionel Richie as their lead singer just before he struck out on his own. It was their ‘Brick House...

Jimmy Buffett Tours

Jimmy Buffett Cheeseburger in Paradise My aircraft interface with Jimmy and the Coral Reefers. Jimmy Buffett Tours… As a part of the Jimmy Buffett's Cheeseburger in Paradise Tour '78… I portrayed myself as an incognito pilot. No… Posted by...